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Biggy. As if nothing had happened, he took up the activity that Ooch had so
cruelly interrupted. Biggy began to purr contentedly.
"The major has reported another Silver Arrow," Pucky continued. "That must mean
we're getting closer to the home base of the aliens-which we want to find. We
know their race only through their ships and their robots. Remember what you
promised me before we started out and don't forget it. You all came on board with
me of your own free will. Ooch, you haven't forgotten that, I hope?"
Ooch rolled up his eyes and tried to look innocent.
"Good," Pucky grinned and nodded to Iltu. "I'm going to central control now. Iltu
will stay with you. If there's the least sign of mischief, she'll only have to send a
thought-impulse and I will come. And then. understand?"
Majestically drawing himself up to his full height, Pucky marched to the door,
opened it telekinetically and strolled out onto the hallway. Behind him, the door
closed upon itself again.
Ooch sighed. His incisor gleamed. "He's gone. As for you, Wullewull!"
Iltu and Wullewull acted at the same time. Their telekinetic thought streams
gripped the infuriated lover and chained him to the bed. The other mousebeavers
howled with glee and danced through the cabin.
Only Biggy went up to the ignominiously defeated one, sat herself beside him and
took his hand. "You're not jealous, are you?" she inquired innocently.
Ooch turned up his eyes before he closed them to give the impression of sleep.
Many problems, he thought to himself, are best solved in just this way.
* * * *
On the way to central control, Pucky reviewed again recent events in his mind.
How had it all happened?
In the past hundred years the ships of Terra in their ever-wider interstellar
roamings in space had always been reporting, on their way back to Earth, sightings
of curious flying objects. These they had met in the deeps of space. They were
slender, spindle-like craft with linear propulsion-or at least with a propulsion that
enabled them to fly millions of times the speed of light. They avoided every
attempt to contact them. But they did not attack, either. They simply swept away
from their pursuers and vanished into the crowd of stars, mostly in the centre of the
Milky Way.
No wonder, then, that the Terranians thought their home planet was in this region
of the galaxy they'd always before steered clear of.
First signs pointed to mysterious vessels manned by robots. They must have had
orders to avoid every contact with another race otherwise their constant flight
would have been inexplicable.
One day, some time during the 24th century, a Terranian explorer cruiser was
destroyed by one such Silver Arrow, as they called the unidentified ships.
At least, so it had to be assumed.
The cruiser had sent a hyperradio message, reporting that it was pursuing a Silver
Arrow. Then the connection was suddenly cut off. The explorer never returned to
Earth and was presumed lost.
Terra's ships were all equipped with good protective shields and so were
practically unassailable. They were also equipped with conversion cannons, the
most fearsome weapons ever devised. The question was: how could a Silver Arrow
possibly destroy the exploration vessel?
When matters had reached this stage, mousebeaver Pucky teleported himself from
his country cottage on the shores of the Goshun sea to Rhodan's office in Terrania.